Food fights: Locavores, conventional food fans battle over benefits. A growing chorus of writers, politicians and bloggers is challenging the locavore movement, painting it as naive and elitist at best and dangerous to the livelihood of conventional commodity farmers at worst. [News Source]

What’s killing the babies of Kettleman City? In the last two years and 10 months, Kettleman City, California residents say, at least 11 babies have been born with serious birth defects. [News Source]

Low Vitamin D Linked to Heart Failure Deaths Title: Low Vitamin D Linked to Heart Failure Deaths Category: Health News Created: 9/1/2010 11:11:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 9/1/2010 11:11:12 AM [News Source]

Vitamin A controversy: Seven Haryana students hospitalised again The controversy over nearly 100 girls taking ill in a Haryana town after being administered a Vitamin A dose in school raised its head again when seven of them had to be re-admitted to hospital. [News Source]

High vitamin D level improves survival rate in heart failure patients: Study Survival rates in heart failure patients with reduced levels of vitamin D are lower than in patients with normal levels. This is the finding of a major study carried out at University Medical Center, Groningen, Netherlands. Results also suggest that low levels of vitamin D are associated with activation of the Renin Angiotensin System (RAS - a pivotal regulatory system in heart failure) and an ... [News Source]

Vitamin Cottage expands to fill the natural food need The Vitamin Cottage expands to make more room for its healthy choices. [News Source]

Organic strawberries are better, researchers say They have more antioxidants and vitamin C than their conventional counterparts, and tasters prefer one organic variety above all others tested, a study says. But some scientists aren't convinced. Consumers who buy organic fruits and vegetables because they think they're tastier, more nutritious and better for the environment are getting at least some of what they're paying for, according to a ... [News Source]

Organic strawberries are better, researchers say They have more antioxidants and vitamin C than their conventional counterparts, and tasters prefer one organic variety above all others tested, a study says. But some scientists aren't convinced. Consumers who buy organic fruits and vegetables because they think they're tastier, more nutritious and better for the environment are getting at least some of what they're paying for, according to a ... [News Source]

Late notice: Red Bull Big Tune producer battle 09/02/10 at Neumos Seattle men and nationally notable hiphop figures Vitamin D, Jake One, DV One and Jonathan Moore host an event called Red Bull Big Tune 09/02/10 at Neumos. [News Source]

Do pills equal power? Vitamin supplements can provide important nutrients which may be missing from your diet, but how much is too much? [News Source]

Safer eggs. Industrialized agriculture has profoundly changed the American diet and landscape, greatly reducing the cost of food but exacting a steep price in other areas. One of them is public health. [News Source]

Clean-up bid for Yangtze set to begin. An alarm over massive environmental damage along the Yangtze River and its Three Gorges reservoir has been raised by officials as authorities plan to spend billions of yuan treating sewage and planting forests in a major clean-up campaign. [News Source]